Law Advice » health http://www.lawadvice.ws Lawful Advice for Legal Situations and Litigious Problems Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:03:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Legal Challenges Likely Next Step As Flap Over Birth Control Rule Continues – Kaiser Health News http://www.lawadvice.ws/legal-challenges-likely-next-step-as-flap-over-birth-control-rule-continues-kaiser-health-news/ http://www.lawadvice.ws/legal-challenges-likely-next-step-as-flap-over-birth-control-rule-continues-kaiser-health-news/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:07:14 +0000 admin http://www.lawadvice.ws/legal-challenges-likely-next-step-as-flap-over-birth-control-rule-continues-kaiser-health-news/
Legal Challenges Likely Next Step As Flap Over Birth Control Rule Continues
Kaiser Health News
The courts will be the next battleground for the fight over the health care reform requirement that employers include free birth control in employee health plans. Two federal suits have already been filed by religious universities — one in DC, …

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Gary bishop blasts health care law as attack on religious freedom
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Calling it an attack on religious freedom, the region's leading Catholic authority has taken aim at a federal law that would force most private health insurance plans to cover birth control, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
FAQ: The health reform law and contraceptionWashington Post (blog)
Health-care law Birth control aspect necessaryHeraldNet
Florida's Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care lawKansas City Star
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FAQ: The health reform law and contraception
Washington Post (blog)
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Charles Dharapak – Associated Press) The health reform law's requirement that health insurance companies cover birth control without co-pay has seen increased media attention last week.
Health-care law Birth control aspect necessaryHeraldNet
Florida's Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care lawKansas City Star
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]]> http://www.lawadvice.ws/faq-the-health-reform-law-and-contraception-washington-post-blog/feed/ 0 Florida’s Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care law – Kansas City Star http://www.lawadvice.ws/floridas-rubio-pushes-back-at-contraception-rules-under-health-care-law-kansas-city-star/ http://www.lawadvice.ws/floridas-rubio-pushes-back-at-contraception-rules-under-health-care-law-kansas-city-star/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:20:15 +0000 admin http://www.lawadvice.ws/floridas-rubio-pushes-back-at-contraception-rules-under-health-care-law-kansas-city-star/
Florida's Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care law
Kansas City Star
Well-positioned to act, the Florida Republican senator last week filed legislation that would repeal the part of the federal health-care law that requires some religious institutions to offer contraceptives and family planning services without …

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Mass. AG Coakley to make case for health care law
Boston.com
BOSTON—Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law. On Thursday Coakley will defend the constitutionality of the …

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Health law raises faith concerns
Gainesville Times
Jamie Barona of St. Michael Catholic Church said the national health care law infringes on conscience and constitutional rights as the Catholic Church does not condone birth control. "Those things are totally opposite to what we believe.
Healthcare law protests over birth control coverageNews 10NBC
Roman Catholic Bishop Timothy McDonnell denounces contraceptive mandate in new …MassLive.com
Dale Lawinger: New law threatens right to freedom of religionWisconsin State Journal
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Cuccinelli, Coakley to debate federal health care law
Washington Post (blog)
By Laura Vozzella Two state attorneys general with opposing views on the federal health care law will square off next week at the National Press Club. Cuccinelli, who is running for governor, and Coakley will appear at 10 am Thursday at the National …

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Many states aren't ready for looming health law changes
Boston Herald
By Marilyn Werber Serafini / Kaiser Health News The 2010 health law's biggest changes don't take effect until 2014, when states and insurers must be ready to begin signing up an estimated 32 million people in Medicaid and private insurance.
States to get socked with Medicaid tax under health care lawSalt Lake Tribune
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Health law delivers $2.1 billion in savings on drugs for seniors
Los Angeles Times
By Noam N. Levey In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011, the Obama administration announced Thursday. The savings are one of the first …
Health reform law saves $2.1 billion for 3.6 million Americans with MedicareMarketWatch (press release)

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